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This summer I have a flight out of Warsaw Airport and I could have booked Holiday Inn Express Warsaw Airport for $39 to pick up 40,000 points with IHG Rewards Club Accelerate 2019 summer promotion. I will be staying in the city center instead. I stayed at Holiday Inn Express Warsaw Airport hotel in March…
Forget Marriott Bonvoy winning the best promotion of 2018 at the April 25 Freddie Awards. IHG Rewards Club has been the most lucrative hotel loyalty program for me over the past six months as evidenced by my earning 105,000 points with 6 paid nights in California and Europe in November 2018 and March 2019 spending…
My IHG Rewards Club Accelerate tasks finally posted today for 37,700 total bonus points with completion of three tasks. My wife’s account still does not show any offer. Earn 37,700 Total Bonus Points Task 1: 8,000 Bonus Points – Complete 4 nights. Task 2: 12,600 Bonus Points – Stay at 2 brands. Task 3: 4,500…
IHG Rewards Club has the most lucrative promotions for earning points of any hotel loyalty program. Until May 1, 2019 you can buy 100,800 points for $560 with the current buy IHG points with 80% bonus points offer when you spend at least $300 to buy 54,000 points. The reason I don’t buy IHG points…
Airline frequent flyer programs were much simpler for me to understand than hotel loyalty programs when I started collecting miles and points over 20 years ago. The problem with figuring hotel loyalty programs for a leisure traveler is the lack of experience when you have no necessity to spend 50 to 100 nights a year…
IHG Free Nights Faster January 15-April 30, 2019 is a promotion requiring completion of member targeted tasks for bonus points. My offer consisted of 6 tasks for 52,550 bonus points. I needed to complete 5 of 6 tasks for an Achievement Bonus of 16,850 bonus points. Three hotel stays in Warsaw last week completed 5…
InterContinental Warsaw was stay #2 of 3 stays I planned for IHG Rewards Club ‘Free Nights Faster’ promotion to maximize bonus points earned with hotel stays in Warsaw, Poland over the past week. When rates dropped to $99.73 for advance purchase on February 6, I figured that was a great day to book IC Warsaw,…
Warsaw is the city where I am on track to pick up 3 hotel stays with 3 hotel nights for $300 to earn 43,000+ points. My first of three stays was Holiday Inn Warsaw City Centre. This stay completed two of my bonus points tasks for IHG Free Nights Faster (Jan 15-April 30) earning 2,000 bonus…
IHG Rewards Club PointBreaks list of hotels has posted for discount reward nights on stays through May 31, 2019. This is a slim list at 95 hotels worldwide, which debunks the rationale originally offered for adding hotels at 10,000 and 15,000 points that saw 200+ hotels offering discounts on PointBreaks lists a year ago when…
As a leisure traveler the interesting research for me is figuring out how to use hotel loyalty program promotions to maximize the rebates I receive for my hotel spend. Currently there are three good value promotions for March-April 2019 hotel stays with Best Western Rewards free night after two stays, Choice Privileges 8,000 points after…
